National Emergency Construction Authority Executive Order
National Emergency Construction Authority Executive Order

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, including the National
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3,
United States Code, I declared a national emergency that requires the
use of the Armed Forces of the United States, by Proclamation 7463 of
September 14, 2001, because of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon, and because of the continuing and immediate
threat to the national security of the United States of further
terrorist attacks. To provide additional authority to the
Department of Defense to respond to that threat, and in accordance with
section 301 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1631), I hereby
order that the emergency construction authority at 10 U.S.C. 2808 is
invoked and made available in accordance with its terms to the
Secretary of Defense and, at the discretion of the Secretary of
Defense, to the Secretaries of the military departments.